Check out Stonehenge with this Awesome Blender Reconstruction

Stonehenge Blender - Still from the VideoThe Heritage Key office may be bristling with excitement at the prospect of our own Virtual Stonehenge - the progress of which you can see right here each week.. errr.. starting next week. But the anticipation has clearly proved too much for this online architect, who thought he'd have a go at the megalithic masterpiece himself. Andreas Trunk's Stonehenge reconstruction is the first in a series exploring circular buildings of the ancient world, the next being Delphi's famous Marmaria, and we reckon this is a pretty good first shot. Taking the stones as they are today, Trunk attempts to explain how the existing fragments would have looked in their original positions (we wouldn't want to get caught beneath one!), and how the stones align with the sun and moon, leading to a fascination which continues to this day. Visually Trunk gets it just right - if his narration isn't exactly from the David Attenborough top drawer of voiceovers. So (druidic) hats off to Mr Trunk; he certainly knows his Stonehenge facts a bit better than some of the Clonehenges we've encountered here at Heritage Key.

For those of you of a technical persuasion, just listen to the man himself: "In the case of Stonehenge I had infos about every single stone. Their exact shape, size and position was created first in AutoCad and then transfered into Blender. The landscape came from a land surveyor. I took the file into Autodesk Revit to create the mesh – and then up to Blender as usual." Enjoy.

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The archaeological site dates back to 1660, when he was interviewed first by antiquarian John Aubrey. Aubrey erroneously attributed to Stonehenge Celts much later, in the belief that it is a religious center led by the druids. Centuries of work on the ground show since the monument was more than a millennium in the making, which began 5,000 years ago as a circular earthen bank and ditch. A complex pattern of wooden poles were replaced in 2600 a. C. bluestones about 80 of Wales have been reorganized at least three times, once again sandstone rocks were added several hundred years later. The huge blocks of sandstone, which weigh about 25 tons, were moved about 19 miles (30 kilometers) to create an outer circle continues with five triliths (pairs of columns with a header on top) that forms a horseshoe in interior. It was estimated that more than 20 million hours to build Stonehenge.

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